Trump administration aims to buy milk, meat to help farmers hit by coronavirus: Perdue
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-perdue-idUSKCN21X2HC
while they are at it maybe few rolls of TP, thanks,
Posted on 04/15/2020 12:11:55 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
TOPLINEImages of empty grocery store shelves, farmers dumping thousands of gallons of milk, and long lines at food banks have sparked fears this week of mass food shortages in the U.S.— a prospect that experts say is extremely unlikely, though due to the sudden disruption to normal distribution channels, consumers may see temporary, minor shortages of some items as the food system adapts to changes.
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Trump administration aims to buy milk, meat to help farmers hit by coronavirus: Perdue
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-perdue-idUSKCN21X2HC
while they are at it maybe few rolls of TP, thanks,
Let the panic begin and store shelves empty. The left is overplaying their hand again.
Yesterday I walked right by a mountain of water, toilet paper etc...They were only allowing people to take one case, but there was a whole lot of it.
I bet the panic hoarders and panic peddlers are sad.
forbes must need new subscribers-
[[Yesterday I walked right by a mountain of water, toilet paper etc]]
You lucky duck- toilet paper has disappeared from our area- I’ve heard rumors of it, but never see it- starting to think toilet paper is the new big foot
“Let the panic begin and store shelves empty. The left is overplaying their hand again.”
I hate how stupid Americans have become.
I wanted baked beans yesterday and Aldi didn’t have any.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
No beans !
Butt the air quality is probably better than it would have been in your house today
The key issue is that all of the meals people used to eat at work lunches, in school cafeterias, and resteraunts are now being eaten at home using groceries.
So facotories able to fill crates of 1-pint single serving milk are siting idle while factories able to fill gallon jugs are working at full capacity. Grocieries are out of milk while Farmers are having to dump excess stock.
The same thing is happening with butter (no demand for the 20-pound buckets), eggs (5 pound bags of liquid egg), ...
Anecdotally I went to the supermarket when it opened this morning (6:30 am).
My one goal was to avoid lines. I was successful there.
My other goal was to have stocked shelves. I thought the grocery elves stocked overnight. Apparently not.
I have never been in an emptier store. It’s a large Safeway. 90 percent of the produce was missing. Dairy basically gone. Ridiculous.
The big score was a package of paper towels. That’s about it.
So not bothering with them again. If they don’t restock overnight what’s the point.
Hell, Why not? There are still plenty of checks in the check book
More beans, Mr. Taggart?
Our local Trader Joe’s allows only 20 people at a time in the store, resulting in long lines. But they are constantly restocking the shelves. The only difference from normal times I noticed was only single rolls of TP being sold. Limit 2 per customer. I can live with that.
Beat me to it :0)
Given that I...and a substantial percentage of Americans...am a tad bit overweight a short,a minor food shortage might not be a bad thing.
Beans...beans...the musical fruit...
touche
Yeah...THIS should be good....sheesh.
I was in lynchburg, Va yesterday.
At 0800 they had spread what meat was available over the whole case trying to keep the case from looking empty.
No steaks or roasts. Some ribs and various packages of ground beef. Limit 2 beef items/customer.
Same with pork.
Plenty of chicken though.
Hot dogs and lunch meats were mostly empty.
Same with bacon and sausage though no limits.
Paper towels and TP were in evidence, barely. One size package of each spread across the whole aisle to take up space.
Limit of one package each/customer.
Clerks told me TP, PT’s and meat are sold out by 1000.
There was plenty of bread though.
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